Heart-shaped candies. Greeting cards. Stuffed animals. Jewelry. Expensive dinners. Red, pink and white roses. It’s hard not to notice that Valentine’s Day has arrived. In America, retail stores and restaurants make sure no one forgets this holiday. However, the focus on purchasing gifts and cards and going out to eat takes away from the deeper …
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Every Chanukah, Jews light candles in their chanukiot, the special candle holders or menorahs, used on the holiday. They do this for eight days, but most of them miss the significance of the shamash, the helper candle, used to light all the others. They focus on the eight beautiful flames, and pay little attention to …
The observance of Chanukah involves the lighting of candles, and Christmas has become known for its show of lights. Yet, often Jews and Christians alike find themselves spiritually in the dark during these winter holidays. It’s difficult to feel enlightened by holiday observances when the meaningful or spiritual components of these holy days have been …
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When you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner and look at your plate, heaped high with turkey, potatoes and gravy, do something before you pick up your fork. Give yourself a hefty serving of gratitude to go with the meal. After all, what is a Thanksgiving feast without gratitude? That what the holiday is all …
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In my last post, I wrote about how you can feel God’s love any day, but especially on Valentine’s Day if you are lonely or alone. If you are not a spiritual person, however, that idea, and the meditation I provided, may not have filled the void for you. Here’s another way: Feel Mother Nature’s …
For many people, Valentine’s Day and the period leading up to it represent a lonely time. The holiday can be a sad day filled with grief over lost love or disappointment over the lack of a romantic partner. You don’t have to suffer if you aren’t in love on Valentine’s Day or if you don’t …
I was browsing through my Facebook feed this morning and saw numerous pictures of Christmas trees, holiday parties and status updates about family gatherings and special recipies. I started to wonder if everyone finds this focus on Christmas, or the winter holidays, uplifting. I actually know they don’t. I celebrate Chanukah, which this year came …
Thanksgiving is a day of gratitude. Chanukah is a day of miracles. What happens when they both fall on the same day? You get to experience the miracle of gratitude. The Most Powerful Prayer Gratitude serves as the strongest prayer you can offer. So, when you offer a prayer filled with heartfelt thanks on …
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It’s almost Passover, and for me this always makes me feel squeezed. Actually, it just makes me more aware of the areas of my life that give me that sense of the walls closing in or getting tight. You don’t have to be Jewish to understand this even though Passover is a Jewish holiday. Passover …
Today I spent a lot of time thinking about Groundhog day and what I might learn from a groundhog. After all, it was Groundhog Day, a weird holiday on which we wait for an animal to come out of its hole. We then determine if he saw his shadow or not, a fact that determines …
Tonight marks the first night of Hanukkah. My daughter is in New York in college this year. My son and I will be alone; my husband just left on a business trip. We just got back from a trip ourselves and with Hanukkah falling in the middle of the week and no preparation made or …
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Last year I ran a series of 10 posts during the High Holy Days to help people with the t’shuvah process, the process of returning to their best selves. I have compiled those posts into an ebook called 10 Days and 10 Ways to Return to Your Best Self, A T’Shuvah Guide, that is now …
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